Beyond the checklist : what else health care can learn from aviation teamwork and safety /

Using the principles learned in the aviation industry through a program called Crew Resource Management, Gordon (When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession) and her coauthors propose that this plan also be used for hospitals and medical staff. They write about how the airline industry has successfully cut down on disasters by using input from all personnel and getting them to work better as teams. Much time is spent explaining how the airline industry does that and how it has improved its safety records. They write about the training methods used and the airlines rules to make pilots and others comply. Unfortunately, because more than three-quarters of this book is spent on the airlines, not much is written about what suggestions would allow this plan to be implemented in medical situations. Nor do they spend much time writing about how they would propose that physicians be incorporated into the actual plan or induced to comply with the procedures. Verdict Readers who are interested in aviation industry safety information would find this book challenging, but there is not much concrete medical safety information here.-Karen Sutherland, White Oak Lib. Dist., Romeoville, IL (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.